Oracle Database Appliance – let’s backup to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage

This blog post describes the setup for an Oracle Database Appliance ODA database backup by RMAN to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Basically there are three destinations for backup and recovery possible: • Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) disk – the Internal FRA • Network File System (NFS) location – external FRA • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage – Oracle Object Storage When using backup to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, the Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service module (opc_installer.jar) is…

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Oracle 11g – let’s move that old Stuff to the Oracle Cloud

This blog post describes the lift and shift of an on-prem Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by using Oracle RMAN paired with OCI Object Storage. Works for other versions > Oracle 11g / Enterprise Edition too (the tablespace encryption method may change). Architecture Q&A What’s the motivation of the lift and shift of a good old on-prem Oracle 11g database to Oracle Database Service? Hardware runs out of lifecycle Out scoping of an on-prem database which is…

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Never stop Learning – why I love Oracle LiveLabs

Since over one and a half year, this week I was back in an onsite training, live people, live teaching. With a motivated junior DBA class, we started with all about Oracle architecture based on our Trivadis training O-AI – Oracle Architecture and Internals. The training is a mix between slides, demos and labs. Therefore during the course we run the training environments in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, build by Terraform (Credits to Stefan Oehrli from oradba.ch which has ramped up…

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – A short Blog Post about a secure and small Development Setup

For an internal project I had the pleasure to setup a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment for an APEX development team. Here is a short overview about the setup. Requirements VPN Access from everywhere – 2 people are working maximal at same time on the environment Oracle Standard Edition 2 – no license available in project Small monitoring to verify server stats Instances can be started and stopped from the developers to save costs for example over night, weekend, holiday…

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Safe – How to burn down 201.44 Swiss Francs in 30 Seconds…

Is Data Safe really for free? In the last autumn, the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure feature called Data Safe was released. For sure, new features has to be tested. I have tested the Data Safe feature too and added a cloud database to Data Safe. But in my enthusiasm about this cool feature – or maybe it was just too late in the evening –  I did a mistake by adding the database target. Four days later, I recognized that…

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